David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (Henry Holt: New York), 394–395.
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Belknap Press: Cambridge, 1999).
“Belgium,” The History of Sanitary Sewers, ➝.
Adam Hochschild, Kind Leopold’s Ghost (Boston and New York: Mariner, 1999).
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1973), 186; See also Richard King and Dan Stone, eds., Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History: Imperialism, Nation, Race and Genocide (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007).
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (Monthly Review Press, 2000/1955), 35–36.
Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power (New York: Viking, 1985).
Glen Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014).
TJ Demos, “To Save a World: Geoengineering, Conflictual Futurisms, and the Unthinkable,” e-flux Journal 94 (October 2018), ➝.
Glen Coulthard, “The Colonialism of the Present,” interview by Andrew Bard Epstein, Jacobin, January 13, 2015, ➝.
“In Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson differentiates between the indigenous social savage and the African biological or ontological savage.” Christian Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durhan: Duke University Press, 2016), 78.
Blake Nicholson/Associated Press, “More Than $600,000 Spent on Police Gear for Pipeline Protest” WDIO abc, December 16, 2017, ➝.
For a longer discussion, see Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018).
Michel Foucault, “Practicing Criticism,” interview with Didier Eribon, in Politics, Philosophy, Culture, ed. Lawrence D. Kritzman (New York: Routledge, 1988), 154.
Michel Foucault, “What is Critique?,” in The Politics of Truth, ed. Sylvere Lotringer, trans. Lysa Hochroth and Catherine Porter (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 1997).
For instance, see Myra J. Hird, “Waste, Landfills, and an Environmental Ethics of Vulnerability,” Ethics and Environment 18, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 105–124.
Nikhil Anand, Hydraulic City: Water and Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017). See also Antina von Schnitzler, Democracy’s Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016).
For more background on the Flint crisis, see A.R. Highsmith, Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2015).
Summary adapted from Merrit Kennedy, “Lead-Laced Water In Flint: A Step-By-Step Look At The Makings Of A Crisis,” NPR, April 20, 2016, ➝.
Susan J. Douglas, “Without Black Lives Matter, Would Flint’s Water Crisis Have Made Headlines?,” In These Times, February 10, 2016, ➝.
Scott Atkinson and Monica Davey, “5 Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter in Flint Water Crisis,” New York Times, June 14, 2017, ➝.
Andrew R. Highsmith, “Flint's toxic water crisis was 50 years in the making,” Los Angeles Times, January 29, 2016, ➝.
City of Flint, Michigan, “State of Emergency Declared in the City of Flint,” December 14, 2015, ➝.
Anand, Hydraulic City.